Horton, Stephanie Stone
Affective Disorder and the Writing Life: The Melancholic Muse
Part I. “Could It Be Madness, This?” Affective Difference and the Work of Composition
1. “What Ceremony of Words Can Patch the Havoc?”: Composition and Madness
Stephanie Stone Horton
2. Muse Afire: Negotiating the Line between Creative Pursuit and Mental Illness
Nancer Ballard
3. After the Fire Goes Out: Writing before and after Treatment for an Affective Disorder
Lise Bagoley
4. Gaps on the Vita
Sharon O’Brien
5. Lunatic
Jeannie Parker Beard
Part II. “Their Lives a Storm Whereon They Ride”: Affective (Dis)order and the Literary Imagination
6. Axing the Frozen Sea: Female Inscriptions of Madness
Joann K. Deiudicibus
7. The Things We Carry: Embodied Truth and Tim O’Brien’s Poetics of Despair
David Bahr
8. “The Incessant Rise and Fall and Fall and Rise”: Virginia Woolf Treading the Waves
Jessica Santa
9. The Fire, the Dark, and the Beautiful Distance
Stephen Newton
Avainsanat: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Creative Writing, Fiction
- Toimittaja
- Horton, Stephanie Stone
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2014
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sivumäärä
- 159 sivua
- Kategoria
- Kirjallisuudentutkimus
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137381668
- Painetun ISBN
- 978-1-349-47966-5